Sketches – Page 61 – Gina Lento: Fine Art and Illustration

Five Minute Sketch

This is a 5 min sketch done in my morning pages. If I can’t think of anything to draw, I go to my saved photos in Sktchy, set the timer for 5 minutes and get moving. I set the timer for 5 minutes because I am doing them in my morning pages and I onlyContinue reading “Five Minute Sketch”

Met Sketch

I went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art yesterday to see the David Hockney exhibit. It was amazing. After that I checked out many other exhibits, studying many paintings and drawings. I wandered into one gallery on the first floor that had these awesome sculptures so I sat down to sketch one. At the Met,Continue reading “Met Sketch”

Sketching out

Yesterday was such a beautiful day that I had to go out to sketch. I took a ride up to the North Shore of LI to join a group that was painting there. I wanted to mount my little guerrilla box on the tripod but alas, it didn’t come with the tripod adapter mounting plateContinue reading “Sketching out”

Sketching more shoes

I met with my sketch club tonight at the local library. We sketched shoes. Not just any shoes, they had to be fancy dress shoes. We did something different this evening where we had timed 15 minute sessions and then we had to move down 2 chairs to another place. It gave everyone a chanceContinue reading “Sketching more shoes”

Les chaussures

One of our 365 assignments was art and shoes. We were instructed to do one line shoes, writing about how we feel about shoes and copying in our own artistic “language,” shoes done by Master artists of our choice. The first photo is my one line shoes where we had to draw the first thingContinue reading “Les chaussures”

Catching up

Lots of stuff to post! Stay tuned. I participated in Sktchy’s Creative Cupid Valentine yesterday where we signed up to sketch someone for Valentine’s Day and someone else sketched a reference photo that we posted, and so on. I was assigned Yang Yi-Ting. Here was yesterday’s Sktchy Valentine of Yang….. I did a test driveContinue reading “Catching up”

Butter Beans

My grandmother had a recipe where she made baked beans out of white lima beans. She used to make then when she was roasting pork. When I don’t have the time to soak dry beans, I use Hanover or Goya Butter Beans. There’s no butter in them, I guess they get their name from theContinue reading “Butter Beans”

5 minute sketch using my left hand

This gentleman, Rick N, is a very prolific contributor to Sktchy, the app I use for reference photos. I have sketched him a few times. The object of this sketch was to use my non-dominant hand and sketch a person in 5 minutes. I prefer to use live people when I can but when thatContinue reading “5 minute sketch using my left hand”

The 12th day of Christmas

Here is the 12th day of Christmas. I hope you enjoyed this little series. And Cleo the cat.

11 day of Christmas

Ok. I was raised a Catholic. For us, the 12th day of Christmas is the Feast of the Epiphany, January 6th, aka Little Christmas. (For you folks in the UK, Happy 12th Night! ) Our tree stays up until the 6th. When I was a kid, the tree didn’t go up until Christmas Eve andContinue reading “11 day of Christmas”